After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in e...arth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to prod...uce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and... the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and ...wars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to beli...eve all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Christ has called us to new visionsHere to celebrate and praise,...Here confess our old divisions,Here our peace petitions raise.Come repentant, come forgiving,Come in joy and hope and prayer.Christ, once crucified, now living,Bids us faith and love to share.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »